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Nor was the equine part below marred, or inferior to the human: give him a horse’s head and neck and he would be worthy of a Castor, the back so fit for a rider, the deep chest so muscular. He was blacker than pitch all over, except for a white tail, and legs also snow-white.
The size of the smaller disk, assumed to be the secondary star, was not well-defined. [2] The second set of AMBER observations were made in the K-band in April 2014. The best fits for a uniform disk and the Rosseland radius of a model atmosphere were almost identical at 3.87 mas and 3.86 mas respectively, corresponding to a radius of 1,492 ± ...
A Centaur fighting a man. Anggitay – A strictly-female creature that has the upper body of a human with the lower body of a horse. Centaur – A creature that has the upper body of a human with the lower body of a horse. Khepri – The dung beetle-headed Egyptian God. Kinnara – Half-human, half-bird in later Indian mythology.
Chart depicting the constellation of Centaurus. Centaurus was the first person to group stars into constellations and taught others how to read them. One explanation of the constellation is that Centaurus put a picture of himself in the sky to guide his sailor friends the Argonauts.
The Greek word kentauros is generally regarded as being of obscure origin. [3] The etymology from ken + tauros, 'piercing bull', was a euhemerist suggestion in Palaephatus' rationalizing text on Greek mythology, On Incredible Tales (Περὶ ἀπίστων), which included mounted archers from a village called Nephele eliminating a herd of bulls that were the scourge of Ixion's kingdom. [4]
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Centaur and Centauride: creatures with a head and the torso of a human, and the body of a horse. Centaurs Agrius: one of the centaurs who fought with Heracles; Amycus: one of the centaurs who fought at the Centauromachy. Asbolus: a centaur seer who read omens in the flight of birds. Bienor: one of the centaurs who fought at the Centauromachy.
In the "Imagines", the rhetorician Philostratus the Elder gives a brief description of the Centaurides: . How beautiful the Centaurides are, even where they are horses; for some grow out of white mares, others are attached to chestnut mares, and the coats of others are dappled, but they glisten like those of horses that are well cared for.